Backyard Sketches

Dear Member,

The Campaign for Dark Skies (CfDS) is conducting a UK-wide survey of problem lighting. If you consider yourself to be adversly affected by poorly-aimed or nuisance lighting, please look at:

http://www.britastro.org/dark-skies/survey/index.html

and submit a completed form.

This lighting nuisance survey is intended to determine the sources and types of lighting problems in the UK and whether local authorities have been able to help. The results will be published and supplied to Defra. Please note that the data you submit will be anonymised prior to use. No personal data will be retained once the survey has been completed.

Bob Mizon, the Coordinator of CfDS, tells me that he would be most grateful if you would spend a few minutes filling in the form and submitting it on-line, or alternatively you can produce a printed version of the form from the website, which you can complete and send to Bob at his home address (see inside backpage of the Journal for this).

Please only fill in the survey if you believe that you are suffering as a result of artificial lighting.

N.B. The deadline for the survey is Friday, 25th January, 2008.

Thanks for your time,

Richard Miles
BAA Vice-President